Word Origin & History

flux late 14c., from O.Fr. flux, from L. fluxus, pp. of fluere "to flow" (see fluent). Originally "excessive flow" (of blood or excrement); an early name for "dysentery;" sense of "continuous succession of changes" is first recorded 1620s.

Example Sentences for flux

Somewhere within me I felt the stuff of power, stiff and unworkable, needing the flux of passion and the shaping hand of skill.

Some ores smelt and flow so easily that a flux is not required.

My medicines cured one of a flux, and I go into Simla to oversee his recovery.

Whence come the revolutions of the seasons and the flux of the rivers?

Changes that take place in the descending mass, composed of ore, coal and flux.

The flux of the tide, or the time the water continues rising.

Sole dispenser of money, it cannot omit the oldest and most obvious means of amassing wealth by the flux and reflux of paper.

The flux of time is the reality itself, and the things which we study are the things which flow.